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In this paper, we explore the kinematic properties of a sample of 19 young (<1 Gyr) and intermediate-age (1-2.5 Gyr) massive star clusters within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We analyse the proper motions of the clusters, which have…

We report the 3D kinematics of 27 Mira-like stars in the northern, eastern and southern periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), based on Gaia proper motions and a dedicated spectroscopic follow-up. Low-resolution spectra were…

The {\it Gaia} mission has provided the largest catalogue ever of sources with tangential velocity information. However, using this catalogue for dynamical studies is difficult because most of the stars lack line-of-sight velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi

We quantify the differences between stellar accelerations in disk galaxies formed in a MONDian universe relative to galaxies with the identical baryonic matter distributions and a fitted cold dark matter halo. In a Milky Way-like galaxy the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-04 Maxwell Finan-Jenkin , Richard Easther

We study how structural properties of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies are linked to their orbits in the Milky Way halo. From the inner to the outer halo, orbital energy increases and stellar-systems gradually move out of internal…

We investigate the kinematics of neutral gas in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and test the hypothesis that it is rotating in a disk. To trace the 3D motions of the neutral gas distribution, we identify a sample of young, massive stars…

Using a large sample of Main Sequence stars with 7-D measurements supplied by Gaia and SDSS, we study the kinematic properties of the local (within ~10 kpc from the Sun) stellar halo. We demonstrate that the halo's velocity ellipsoid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 V. Belokurov , D. Erkal , N. W. Evans , S. E. Koposov , A. J. Deason

Multi-scale interaction between the LMC, Galactic halo, and the disk is examined with N-body simulations, and precise amplitudes of the Galactic warp excitation are obtained. The Galactic models are constructed most realistically to satisfy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Toshio Tsuchiya

Despite their close proximity, the complex interplay between the two Magellanic Clouds, the Milky Way, and the resulting tidal features, is still poorly understood. Recent studies have shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a very…

A Massive Compact Halo Object (Macho) that lenses a background star will magnify different parts of the rotating stellar disk by varying amounts. The differential magnification will cause a shift in the centroid of the star's spectral lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dan Maoz , Andrew Gould

Recent observations indicate that both the Milky Way bulge and inner halo exhibit angular momentum, although the origin and evolution of this prograde signature remain ambiguous. One plausible scenario involves secular evolution induced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Zhuohan Li , Chengdong Li , Gang Zhao , Ruizhi Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue

We explore differences in Galactic halo kinematic properties derived from two commonly employed Galactic potentials: the St$\ddot{a}$ckel potential and the default Milky Way-like potential used in the "Galpy" package (MWPotential2014),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Young Kwang Kim , Young Sun Lee , Timothy C. Beers

While the precise relationship between the Milky Way disk and the symmetry planes of the dark matter halo remains somewhat uncertain, a time-varying disk orientation with respect to an inertial reference frame seems probable. Hierarchical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Perryman , David N. Spergel , Lennart Lindegren

From high resolution cosmological simulations of the Local Group in realistic environment, namely HESTIA simulations, we study the position and kinematic deviations that may arise between the disc of a Milky Way (or Andromeda)-like galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Jean-Baptiste Salomon , Noam Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman

We use the proper motions (PM) of half a million red giant stars in Large Magellanic Cloud measured by Gaia to construct a 2d kinematic map of mean PM and its dispersion across the galaxy, out to 7 Kpc from its centre. We then explore a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-21 Eugene Vasiliev

We present evidence for a ring of stars in the plane of the Milky Way, extending at least from l = 180 deg to l = 227 deg with turnoff magnitude $g \sim 19.5$; the ring could encircle the Galaxy. We infer that the low Galactic latitude…

We use K-giant stars selected from the LAMOST DR5 to study the variation of the rotational velocity of the galactic halo at different space positions. Modelling the rotational velocity distribution with both the halo and disk components, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Yougang Wang , Yan Xu , Chengqun Yang , Bo Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue

We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and line-of-sight velocity information combined with two sets of distances obtained with a Bayesian inference method to study the 3D velocity distribution in the Milky Way disc. We search for variations in all…

Previous attempts at disturbing the galactic disk by the Magellanic Clouds relied on direct tidal forcing. However, by allowing the halo to actively respond rather than remain a rigid contributor to the rotation curve, the Clouds may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin D. Weinberg

We present a detailed analysis of kinematics of the Milky Way disk in solar neighborhood using GAIA DR3 catalog. To determine the local kinematics of the stellar disks of the Milky Way galaxy we use a complete sample of 278,228 red giant…